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Stephen Lascelles Thornton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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From "Scuba Diving" to "Jet Skiing"? Information Behavior, Political Science, and the Google Generation.
Journal of Political Science Education, 2010Co-Authors: Stephen Lascelles ThorntonAbstract:It is often suggested that the swift arrival of a world shaped by information superabundance—symbolized by the astonishing growth in popularity of the digital search engine Google—has changed the manner in which many learn. A particular concern of some is the perception that younger people have turned away from books and long articles and have taken to regarding the Internet uncritically as the fount of all knowledge. This anxiety has been reflected with recent growth in literature about the so-called “Google Generation,” in which it assumed that changes in the manner in which young people access information will necessitate major reforms to the higher education system. This article will examine these claims and will present findings—from the United Kingdom and United States—that suggest a more nuanced picture of this particular cohort of students than has sometimes been presented. This will be followed by recommendations that have been made to address some remaining issues, particularly those pertinent t...
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from scuba diving to jet skiing information behavior political science and the Google Generation
Journal of Political Science Education, 2010Co-Authors: Stephen Lascelles ThorntonAbstract:It is often suggested that the swift arrival of a world shaped by information superabundance—symbolized by the astonishing growth in popularity of the digital search engine Google—has changed the manner in which many learn. A particular concern of some is the perception that younger people have turned away from books and long articles and have taken to regarding the Internet uncritically as the fount of all knowledge. This anxiety has been reflected with recent growth in literature about the so-called “Google Generation,” in which it assumed that changes in the manner in which young people access information will necessitate major reforms to the higher education system. This article will examine these claims and will present findings—from the United Kingdom and United States—that suggest a more nuanced picture of this particular cohort of students than has sometimes been presented. This will be followed by recommendations that have been made to address some remaining issues, particularly those pertinent t...
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Lessons from America: teaching politics with the Google Generation
Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences, 2009Co-Authors: Stephen Lascelles ThorntonAbstract:The superabundance of information available, particularly through the internet, is posing many challenges to the traditional pedagogy of higher education. Much of this concern is focused on the ubiquity of the search engine Google, with Tara Brabazon amongst the most conspicuous to claim that ‘the popularity of Google is facilitating laziness, poor scholarship and compliant thinking’ (Brabazon, 2007: 15). At the very least, it is clear that Google – as well as the more specialist Google Scholar and the (mostly) open-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia – have quickly established prominent positions in many students’ strategies to locate information for various assignments. This has led to particular cohorts of students being dubbed, often in a derogatory fashion, the Google Generation. While making it clear that many of the stereotypical claims made on behalf of this group are unfounded, this paper will present evidence to support some of the concerns made by Brabazon and others. In addition, it will define the concept that many have recognised as the potential solution to this problem, and will examine one ambitious attempt from the US to confront these problems directly. Moreover, it will be argued that adoption of similar strategies in the UK might address some important criticisms levelled at general university-level politics education in this country.
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Lessons from America: teaching politics with the Google
2009Co-Authors: Stephen Lascelles ThorntonAbstract:The superabundance of information available, particularly through the internet, is posing many challenges to the traditional pedagogy of higher education. Much of this concern is focused on the ubiquity of the search engine Google, with Tara Brabazon amongst the most conspicuous to claim that „the popularity of Google is facilitating laziness, poor scholarship and compliant thinking‟ (Brabazon, 2007: 15). At the very least, it is clear that Google – as well as the more specialist Google Scholar and the (mostly) open-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia – have quickly established prominent positions in many students‟ strategies to locate information for various assignments. This has led to particular cohorts of students being dubbed, often in a derogatory fashion, the Google Generation. While making it clear that many of the stereotypical claims made on behalf of this group are unfounded, this paper will present evidence to support some of the concerns made by Brabazon and others. In addition, it will define the concept that many have recognised as the potential solution to this problem, and will examine one ambitious attempt from the US to confront these problems directly. Moreover, it will be argued that adoption of similar strategies in the UK might address some important criticisms levelled at general university-level politics education in this country.
Johanna Kiviluoto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Information literacy and diginatives: Expanding the role of academic libraries
IFLA Journal, 2015Co-Authors: Johanna KiviluotoAbstract:Promoting the development of pre-academic information literacy skills of the so-called Google Generation, and especially among upper secondary school students, is one of the current topics of discussion in the field of media and information literacy. Traditionally the Finnish upper secondary school library services have been provided by and developed with the public libraries, but the academic libraries, with their special expertise and digital resources, should also take part in the teaching of pre-academic information literacy skills. The Joint Higher Education Library in Lahti, Finland has taken several steps to meet these demands by collaborating with the region’s educational institutions at vocational, upper secondary and university levels. This article discusses these issues and presents our approach to supporting and promoting knowledge creation, pre-academic information literacy skills and lifelong learning from upper secondary school to higher education.
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The Joint Higher Education Library in Lahti – Supporting the Development of Information Literacy from Upper Secondary School to Higher Education
2014Co-Authors: Johanna KiviluotoAbstract:Promoting the development of pre-academic information literacy skills of the so-called Google Generation, and especially among the upper secondary school students, is one of the current topics of discussion in the field of media and information literacy. The Joint Higher Education Library in Lahti has taken several steps to meet these demands by collaborating widely with the region’s educational institutions of vocational, upper secondary and university levels. This article discusses these issues and presents our approach to supporting and promoting pre-academic information literacy skills and lifelong learning. // Niin sanottujen diginatiivien media- ja informaatiolukutaidosta ja naiden taitojen edistamisesta on viime aikoina keskusteltu paljon. Lahdessa toimivassa Korkeakoulujen yhteiskirjastossa haasteeseen on vastattu tekemalla tiivista ja monipuolista yhteistyota alueella toimivien toisen ja korkea-asteen oppilaitosten kanssa. Tassa artikkelissa kerrotaan, miten yhteiskirjasto on osaltaan tukemassa ja kehittamassa lukioikaisten esiakateemisia tiedonhankintataitoja ja samalla luomassa pohjaa elinikaiselle oppimiselle.
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The Joint Higher Education Library of Lahti: Confluencing for Academic Knowledge – Supporting the Study Paths from Upper Secondary School to University
2014Co-Authors: Johanna KiviluotoAbstract:Promoting the development of pre-academic information literacy skills of the so-called Google Generation, and especially among the upper secondary school students, is one of the current topics of discussion in the field of media and information literacy. The Joint Higher Education Library in Lahti, Finland has taken several steps to meet these demands by collaborating with the region’s educational institutions of vocational, upper secondary and university levels. This paper discusses these issues and presents our approach to supporting and promoting knowledge creation, preacademic information literacy skills and lifelong learning. As a joint library we are in a unique position to offer our users local access to the licensed digital resources of three universities; therefore the focus of our services has shifted into teaching and guiding users in both the use of these collections and in information literacy. To further promote especially the development of pre-academic skills, we have recently teamed up with Lahti’s Kannas Upper Secondary School’s new IB-programme which, with its critical, innovative and scientific focus, is an excellent starting point for learning the information literacy skills needed in later academic studies. As one part of this collaboration, we are planning to launch a new initiative to create a futuristic and mobile Information Skills Clinic. The aim is to develop new methods for teaching pre-academic information and media skills by using serious gaming and participatory design. As part of their studies, the students themselves will participate as developers and testers of this new service. The Skills Clinic will go mobile for example in LINKKU, a multiservice smart bus that also serves as a modern learning environment, making IL guidance and access to library’s digital resources available also to the region’s more remote upper secondary schools.
David Nicholas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Google Generation, The Mobile Phone And The 'Library' of the Future: Implications For Society, Governments And Libraries
2014Co-Authors: David NicholasAbstract:This paper was presented at the 5th International Conference on Libraries, Information & Society 2014 (ICoLIS 2014), held on the 4th - 5th November 2014 at the Boulevard Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.
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Google Generation II: web behaviour experiments with the BBC
Aslib Proceedings, 2011Co-Authors: David Nicholas, Ian Rowlands, David Clark, Peter WilliamsAbstract:Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on continuing research undertaken on the way the Google Generation behave on the internet and to compare this with an earlier highly publicised study by the paper's authors.Design/methodology/approach – This research use a televised practical experiment and a remote web global test incorporating search, working memory and multi‐tasking experiments.Findings – The Google Generation appears to behave very differently from older Generations. By their own admission they are less confident about their searching prowess and this is also demonstrated by the fact that they viewed fewer pages, visited fewer domains and undertook fewer searches. Also, tellingly, their search statements were much more the product of cut and paste. The Google Generation also have poorer working memories and are less competent at multi‐tasking, both of which may have implications for researching in an online environment.Originality/value – The paper introduces of multi‐tasking and cognit...
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The behaviour of the researcher of the future (the ‘Google Generation’)
Art Libraries Journal, 2010Co-Authors: David NicholasAbstract:This paper describes and evaluates the information-seeking behaviour of young people in the virtual environment. Data are drawn from a JISC/BL funded project on the future scholar and a seven-year study of the virtual scholar conducted by CIBER at University College London. Hundreds of thousands of young people, mainly students, from all over the globe, are covered in the log analyses. On the basis of these data, the characteristics of their ‘digital footprints’ are drawn, demonstrating the huge paradigm shift that has occurred in the information seeking of young scholars. The results are surprising, disturbing and challenging and the author concludes with a discussion of how information professionals and the arts and humanities community in general might best meet young people’s information needs.
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the Google Generation are ict innovations changing information seeking behaviour
2009Co-Authors: Barrie Gunter, Ian Rowlands, David NicholasAbstract:Introduction The rise of the information society The internet era Google Generation: what is the evidence? Emergence of new forms of knowledge production, search and acquisition The emergence of digital scholarship What next?
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the Google Generation the information behaviour of the researcher of the future
Aslib Proceedings, 2008Co-Authors: Ian Rowlands, David Nicholas, Peter Williams, Barrie Gunter, Paul Huntington, Maggie Fieldhouse, Richard Withey, Hamid R Jamali, Tom Dobrowolski, Carol TenopirAbstract:Purpose – This article is an edited version of a report commissioned by the British Library and JISC to identify how the specialist researchers of the future (those born after 1993) are likely to access and interact with digital resources in five to ten years' time. The purpose is to investigate the impact of digital transition on the information behaviour of the Google Generation and to guide library and information services to anticipate and react to any new or emerging behaviours in the most effective way.Design/methodology/approach – The study was virtually longitudinal and is based on a number of extensive reviews of related literature, survey data mining and a deep log analysis of a British Library and a JISC web site intended for younger people.Findings – The study shows that much of the impact of ICTs on the young has been overestimated. The study claims that although young people demonstrate an apparent ease and familiarity with computers, they rely heavily on search engines, view rather than rea...
Iain Buchan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Natural Language Search Interfaces: Health Data Needs Single-Field Variable Search
Journal of medical Internet research, 2016Co-Authors: Caroline Jay, Simon Harper, Ian Dunlop, Samuel G. Smith, Shoaib Sufi, Carole Goble, Iain BuchanAbstract:Background: Data discovery, particularly the discovery of key variables and their inter-relationships, is key to secondary data analysis, and in-turn, the evolving field of data science. Interface designers have presumed that their users are domain experts, and so they have provided complex interfaces to support these “experts.” Such interfaces hark back to a time when searches needed to be accurate first time as there was a high computational cost associated with each search. Our work is part of a governmental research initiative between the medical and social research funding bodies to improve the use of social data in medical research. Objective: The cross-disciplinary nature of data science can make no assumptions regarding the domain expertise of a particular scientist, whose interests may intersect multiple domains. Here we consider the common requirement for scientists to seek archived data for secondary analysis. This has more in common with search needs of the “Google Generation” than with their single-domain, single-tool forebears. Our study compares a Google-like interface with traditional ways of searching for noncomplex health data in a data archive. Methods: Two user interfaces are evaluated for the same set of tasks in extracting data from surveys stored in the UK Data Archive (UKDA). One interface, Web search, is “Google-like,” enabling users to browse, search for, and view metadata about study variables, whereas the other, traditional search, has standard multioption user interface. Results: Using a comprehensive set of tasks with 20 volunteers, we found that the Web search interface met data discovery needs and expectations better than the traditional search. A task × interface repeated measures analysis showed a main effect indicating that answers found through the Web search interface were more likely to be correct ( F 1,19 =37.3, P
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natural language search interfaces health data needs single field variable search
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2016Co-Authors: Caroline Jay, Simon Harper, Ian Dunlop, Samuel G. Smith, Shoaib Sufi, Carole Goble, Iain BuchanAbstract:Background: Data discovery, particularly the discovery of key variables and their inter-relationships, is key to secondary data analysis, and in-turn, the evolving field of data science. Interface designers have presumed that their users are domain experts, and so they have provided complex interfaces to support these “experts.” Such interfaces hark back to a time when searches needed to be accurate first time as there was a high computational cost associated with each search. Our work is part of a governmental research initiative between the medical and social research funding bodies to improve the use of social data in medical research. Objective: The cross-disciplinary nature of data science can make no assumptions regarding the domain expertise of a particular scientist, whose interests may intersect multiple domains. Here we consider the common requirement for scientists to seek archived data for secondary analysis. This has more in common with search needs of the “Google Generation” than with their single-domain, single-tool forebears. Our study compares a Google-like interface with traditional ways of searching for noncomplex health data in a data archive. Methods: Two user interfaces are evaluated for the same set of tasks in extracting data from surveys stored in the UK Data Archive (UKDA). One interface, Web search, is “Google-like,” enabling users to browse, search for, and view metadata about study variables, whereas the other, traditional search, has standard multioption user interface. Results: Using a comprehensive set of tasks with 20 volunteers, we found that the Web search interface met data discovery needs and expectations better than the traditional search. A task × interface repeated measures analysis showed a main effect indicating that answers found through the Web search interface were more likely to be correct ( F 1,19 =37.3, P <.001), with a main effect of task ( F 3,57 =6.3, P <.001). Further, participants completed the task significantly faster using the Web search interface ( F 1,19 =18.0, P <.001). There was also a main effect of task ( F 2,38 =4.1, P =.025, Greenhouse-Geisser correction applied). Overall, participants were asked to rate learnability, ease of use, and satisfaction. Paired mean comparisons showed that the Web search interface received significantly higher ratings than the traditional search interface for learnability ( P =.002, 95% CI [0.6-2.4]), ease of use ( P <.001, 95% CI [1.2-3.2]), and satisfaction ( P <.001, 95% CI [1.8-3.5]). The results show superior cross-domain usability of Web search, which is consistent with its general familiarity and with enabling queries to be refined as the search proceeds, which treats serendipity as part of the refinement. Conclusions: The results provide clear evidence that data science should adopt single-field natural language search interfaces for variable search supporting in particular: query reformulation; data browsing; faceted search; surrogates; relevance feedback; summarization, analytics, and visual presentation. [J Med Internet Res 2016;18(1):e13]
L Fox - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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POI05 StayingSmart—an online web resource about cognitive deficits in multiple sclerosis for patients, carers and professionals
Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2010Co-Authors: D Langdon, N Russell, A Field, L FoxAbstract:Many people with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience cognitive problems. In community samples, about half show reduced performance on standardised cognitive tests and in clinic samples, just over half. Information about cognitive difficulties is not easily accessible. Although there are a few pamphlets and books available, they have to be located by people with MS before they can be obtained and read. The person with MS also has to realise and acknowledge that they have cognitive difficulties. To meet the needs of the Google Generation, the web-based tool StayingSmart has been developed. It starts with frequent everyday problems, such as “I lose my keys”, which when “clicked” leads the website user through multilayered information which targets the relevant cognitive domain. “Tips and Tricks” lists simple practical strategies to overcome daily difficulties; “Brief Info” and “More Info” summarise how MS affects the particular cognitive domain; “Evidence Base” reviews the scientific evidence; “Gadgets and Gizmos” lists items that may help; “Further Resources” lists relevant books and other publications; there is a section on “Getting Professional Help”. There is also a Fast Track stream to allow health professionals to access and print all information in one document. There are links to Facebook and Twitter.
